Year Long Reflection

Since the beginning of the year I have struggled with small convention errors within my work. I also didn’t do very well in using voice, sentence fluency, and organization. The areas that I have done well in are having a good thesis statement, but I haven’t been able to argue it well throughout my papers. I have improved in my word choice over the year.

Over the year my writing has began to progress overall. I have been making better grades on my papers. I think this has been a result of more revising and editing before I turn in my papers. I noticed this because before I was doing this I was having a lot of small mechanics errors such as missing a comma or spelling something, which can be easily fixed if I had, took more time to look over it.

This strengths and weaknesses have been noticeable the whole year. As, the year has progressed the minor weaknesses have been erased but, the major ones are still there.   Some of these major weaknesses include using better transitions and arguing my points with sufficient details.  If you look at my first paper which was the literary narrative had more comments than the global issues paper. Even though there were more comments on the first paper, the last paper had the same comments just less minor errors and this brought up my grades but I still haven’t fixed the major points.

Most of the feedback on my papers said the same things. The comments said that I need better transitions and that I wasn’t interpreting what my teacher and I were discussing in our conferences. I thought that I was interpreting what we were discussing, but I didn’t do it well enough in my paper. Over the year my before paper has improved greatly. At first I would just turn the paper in after I do correct obvious mistakes but I wouldn’t carefully go through it.  I became more efficient at it after I started losing points on simple mistakes. Also I don’t write clearly in my papers sometimes. I shift in my tone a lot and this can be hard to understand when trying to read a paper.

The turning point of my revising problems was the profile paper. I had made so many comments on simple things that I was surprised I relieved the grade that I did.  After that point I told myself that I needed to get more serious about English and from then on I would put more effort into my papers.  In the future I am going to work on my transitions and organizations. I am probably going to need more time with my teacher to help me understand and progress in this particular area. If I get this down pact then I will probably do better on my papers as a whole.

Common Errors List

·         Proofreading- In T-Crank I put although he is a larger than most of his friends and family.

·         Incorrect spelling-piece instead of peace

·         Weak transition – in Literary Analysis

·         POQ- was frequent in one paper kept putting “A”

·         Fragments- something simple-But, by him making jokes about people affected his feeling